Galvez, Joseph D. A member of the New Orleans police department during 1907. Galvez accompanied 19 other men into the swamp area south of New Orleans on November 1, 1907 after squatters abductions and strange rituals. There, the police discovered the horrific Cthulhu Cult conducting human sacrifices around an square monolith. Galvez claims to have heard a reply to the ritual from some far and unilluminated spot deeper in the woods. When interviewed, Galvez also claimed to have heard the faint beating of great wings, and said he glimpsed shining eyes and a mountainous white bulk beyond the remotest trees.
The Call of Cthulhu, H.P. Lovecraft.
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Gardner, Merwin. The youngest of the Gardner
boys, son of Nahum and Nabby Gardner. Merwin witnessed the spreading of the graying effect
produced by the Colour Out Of Space. When, in September, 1883, his brother and greatest
playmate, Thaddeus, went mad after visiting the well, Merwin became frightfully
imaginative and restless. His mother had already gone mad in June, and Merwin imagined the
screams between Merwin and his mother as a language between the two not of this earth.
On October 22nd, 1883, Merwin disappeared suddenly from the face
of the earth while going to the well to fetch some water. An exhaustive search produced
nothing more than the crushed lamp and pail he was carrying near the well. His body was
found a few weeks later in the depths of the well, along with the bones of his brother,
Zenas. What was left of the bodies were moved to the woodshed behind the house, but it is
unknown whether or not they were ever buried.
The Colour Out Of Space, H.P. Lovecraft.
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Gardner, Nabby. Nahum Gardner's wife and mother of
three sons. After suffering the effects of the Colour Out Of Space as it infected the
Gardner farm, Nabby went insane in June, 1883, a year after the meteorite hit the farm.
She began to scream about things in the air she couldn't describe. She cried that
something was draining her, that something was fastening itself to her, someone had to
help get it off. Nahum allowed her to roam freely until her actions began to genuinely
frighten the three Gardner boys. At that time, Nahum locked her up in an attic room with
barred windows to protect her and her family from her actions. By the end of July she had
stopped talking altogether and was given to crawl around on all fours. Additionally, Nahum
thought he noticed she had begun to glow like the surrounding vegetation. When, in
September, Thaddeus went mad and was locked in the room across the hall from his mother,
the two would scream at each other in what Merwin, the youngest, fancied as some terrible
alien language.
Nabby Gardner died the first part of November, 1883, the victim of
the creature which lived in the Gardner well. Her body was drain of all life, left a gray,
brittle husk that fell into pieces as the last breaths of life left it.
The Colour Out Of Space, H.P. Lovecraft.
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Gardner, Nahum. Farmer born in 1832 in
Massachusetts in the land west of Arkham, described as a lean, genial man with a wife,
three boys, and a ten-acre farm. In June, 1882, a meteorite slammed into Nahum's farm,
embedding itself into the ground next to his well. The very next day, Nahum went to town
to tell everyone the news, stopping by Ammi Pierce's on the way. Three professors from
Miskatonic University came to study the stone. The men took a piece of the stone back with
them for study, but it dissolved away completely by the next morning, along with the glass
container it was kept in.
The professors returned to Nahum's farm to study the meteorite
further, ultimately discovering a large, colored globule embedded in the substance. After
poking at at it with a prod the globule popped and disappeared, a seemingly uneventful
incident that actually released the Colour Out Of Space into Nahum's well. That night, a
thunderstorm ripped through the area and Nahum witnessed the meteorite being struck by
lightning no less than six times in one hour. When the storm disappeared the meteorite was
gone.
The entire affair made Nahum somewhat of a local celebrity, even
finding his way into mention in a Boston newspaper. Quickly the fame subsided, leaving
Nahum to his farm again.
Come time for harvest later that year, Nahum's fruit trees on the
land immediately adjacent to the well bore fruit like he'd never seen before. He ordered
extra baskets for the harvest, but quick found his entire fruit crop in ruin as the
beautiful fruits were totally unfit for consumption. The poison hadn't spread across the
road near his farm, though, his crops across the road were fine.
Over the next year, strange things spread through Nahum's farm
like poison. The snow melted earlier on his land than anywhere else, and the early plant
life grew strangely and hinted at unexplainable colors. The trees budded early and swayed
strangely at night. It was Thaddeus, Nahum's second son, who first noticed the trees
swayed even with the absence of the wind. The entire Gardner family took the habit of
stealthy listening for sounds they couldn't name or describe.
By April, most of the locals refused to drive near Nahum's place
because of the strange plant and animal life. In May the place was overrun with insects,
strange in their shape and actions. These and many other strange occurrences plagued Nahum
and his family, making the Gardners the subject of whispered discussions.
In June, Nahum's wife, Nabby, went insane. He was forced to lock
her away in an attic room after she harassed his children to the point of scaring them to
death. In July, Nahum's horses stampeded from their stalls, and all horses had to be
killed after almost a week of tracking them down. In September, Thaddeus went mad after a
visit to the well. Almost at the same time his livestock heard began to die off
unexplainably. As with the fruits, the meat was utterly useless.
On October 19th, 1883, Nahum appeared at Ammi Pierce's place,
telling them that Thaddeus had died. Three days later he returned with news that Merwin
had disappeared while fetching water from the well. An exhaustive search was made, but the
only thing found was a crushed lantern and pale near the well. At that time Nahum confided
in Ammi that he figured he was going to die and wanted Ammi to take care of Nabby and
Zenas, his oldest son, when he died.
Two weeks later, Ammi appeared at the Gardner farm and found Nahum
dying on the couch. While Ammi investigated the whereabouts of Nabby, the Colour Out Of
Space attacked Nahum. Ammi returned to find Nahum dissolving into a gray pile of horror.
Nahum spoke his last breath to Ammi as he crumbled away about the creature in the well and
how it destroyed his family. Ammi put a checkered table cloth over Nahum's body and left
the house to return later with the police. It is unknown whether he ever received a
burial.
The Colour Out Of Space, H.P. Lovecraft.
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Gardner, Thaddeus. The fifteen year old second
son of Nahum and Nabby Gardner. It was Thaddeus who first noticed the trees around his
house swayed without the wind due to the effect of the creature in the well. This occurred
around March of 1883, but it took until May of the same year for the other members of the
family to see what he was talking about.
In September, 1883, Thaddeus went mad after visiting the well. He
came back from the well empty-handed, screaming and tittering about the "moving
colours down there." Nahum allowed his son to run free until he began to hurt himself
stumbling and falling. At that time, Nahum shut the boy into a room in the attic across
the hall from Thaddeus' insane mother.
Thaddeus died on October 19th, 1883, a victim of the Colour Out Of
Space that lived in the well. He died in his attic room, his father burying what was left
of his body in the family plot behind the house. Of the entire Gardner family, Thaddeus is
the only one indicated as having a proper burial.
The Colour Out Of Space, H.P. Lovecraft.
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Garnder, Zenas. The oldest son of Nahum and Nabby
Gardner. Zenas was the last of the Garnder children to survive the evil of the Colour Out
Of Space hiding in the well on the Gardner farm. Up until October 22nd, 1883, Zenas was
still alive, assisting his father in caring for the rest of his family. When Ammi Pierce
came to check up on Nahum Gardner and his family in November, Zenas was dead, his father
only able to say that he was "In the well—he lives in the well—."
That same afternoon, detectives from Arkham, Massachusetts drained
the well of its fetid water and found the remains of Zenas and his brother, Merwin. The
bodies were moved to the woodshed behind the house. Whether or not the bodies were ever
properly buried has never been stated.
The Colour Out Of Space, H.P. Lovecraft.
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Garrison Street. A street in Arkham, Massachusetts that runs north-south through the town. At some point, it crosses the Miskatonic River by way of the Garrison Street Bridge, and from this bridge one can see the unpeopled island used by worshippers of the deities of the Mythos in their many rites.
The Dreams In The Witch-House, H.P. Lovecraft.
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Gazette, The. Arkham, Massachusetts newspaper of the late 1800's.
The Colour Out Of Space, H.P. Lovecraft.
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Gilman (Family). A quick reference is made in The Thing On The Doorstep to the Gilmans as being present when Ephraim Waite was locked into the padded attic room of his mansion.
The Thing On The Doorstep, H.P. Lovecraft.
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Gilman House. A hotel in Innsmouth, Massachusetts. The place is described as a tall, cupola-crowned building with remnants of yellow paint and a half-effaced sign proclaiming its name. The hotel is located on the main town square in Innsmouth on the south side of the Manuxet River. The rooms are described at best as cheerless spaces which are deathly musty and are furnished with decrepit furniture. The hotel faces east, its rear windows opening on a courtyard hemmed in by brick blocks and the swampy area to the west of Innsmouth. The hotel has at least three floors. Rooms are interconnected with the other rooms to the left and right of it. The hotel is void of any fire escapes.
The Shadow Over Innsmouth, H.P. Lovecraft
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Gilman, Walter. Student of Euclidean calculus and quantum physics at Miskatonic University. Believed it possible to travel to other dimensions of reality by using a form of mathematics. Originally from Haverhill, attended M.U., where he discovered the connection between mathematics and magic. Purposely rented the very room in Witch-House where Keziah Mason lived in the late 1600s. Realized his goal of interdimensional travels with the help of Keziah Mason and her familiar, Brown Jenkin, though Gilman considered the travel nothing more than dreams due to fever. Keziah's goal was to kill Gilman and take over his soul. As the travel progressed, Gilman became sick and psychotic. Gilman met with Nyarlathotep and Azathoth and destroyed Keziah Mason before she could complete a sacrifice of a 2-year old child with an ornate sacrificial dagger of ancient design. Gilman destroyed Keziah before she could kill him. Died as Frank Elwood, a friend and fellow student, watched in horror. A rat-like creature erupted from Gilman's body and disappeared into the wall of Gilman's room. The rat (which was Brown Jenkin) had burrowed a tunnel into Gilman's body and devoured his heart to repay him for killing Keziah Mason.
The Dreams In The Witch-House, H.P. Lovecraft.
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Ghoul Feeding. Painting by Richard Upton Pickman. Refused by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts as a gift, and the local art club refused to exhibit it. Last known location was at Pickman’s father’s house in Salem, Massachusetts.
Pickman’s Model, H.P. Lovecraft.
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Ghouls. Carnivorous creatures who dwell in the burrows and catacombs beneath graveyards. Described as having dog faces with glaring red, bloodshot eyes, pointy ears, flat noses, and drooling lips. The creature is man-shaped, with scaly claws and mould-caked bodies and half-hoofed feet. Ghouls leave their spawn in cradles in exchange for human babies and teach these children how to eat flesh and do other horrific things.
Pickman’s Model, H.P. Lovecraft.
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Golden Hill. Location in Haverhill, Massachusetts.
The Shadow Out Of Time, H.P. Lovecraft.
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Great Old Ones, The. Gods who lived ages before there were any men. The Great Old Ones came to this young world out of the sky. Though gone now, inside the earth or under the sea, their terrible influence is still strongly felt today. The Great Old Ones are not composed altogether of flesh and blood. They have shape, though their shape is not made of matter. The Great Old Ones have the ability to travel from world to world when the stars are right. They are immortal, existing in a state somewhere between death and life. According to the deathless Chinamen who worship them, the Great Old Ones slumber in stone houses in their great city of R'lyeh, preserved by the magic of great Cthulhu. Only when the stars are right might they return to power. At that time, though, an outside force is required to release them, for the spell that preserves them also binds them so they cannot release themselves. The Great Old Ones communicate telepathically with one another and with humans with sensitive minds. This type of communication led to the founding of the Cthulhu Cult, who worshipped the small idols which the Great Old Ones gave them. Initially they communicated continuously with their priests, but without warning great R'lyeh sunk beneath the oceans. The thoughts of the Great Old Ones are unable to penetrate the depths. (Later stories indicate that the Great Old Ones exist not only in R'lyeh, but other places as well.)
The Call of Cthulhu, H.P. Lovecraft.
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Great Race (of Yith), The. A race
of time travelers first found on Earth prior to 475,000,000 B.C.. The members of the race
took over the bodies of a dormant cone shaped beings. These beings were immense rugose
cones ten feet high, and with head and other organs attached to foot-thick distensible
limbs spreading from the apexes. They spoke by clicking or scraping huge paws or claws
attached to the end of two of their four limbs, and walked by the expansion and
contraction of a viscous layer attached to their vast, ten-foot base. The Great Race had
no use for sleep, the metabolism of the cone beings eliminating this need. They only had
two senses as we understand it—sight and hearing. Hearing was accomplished through
gray flower-like appendages atop the cone’s head. The creatures had no sex and
reproduced by spores which had to develop under water.
The Great Race of Yith is known by this name because this race,
alone, has the ability to time travel. Through the power of its keener minds to project
themselves into the past and future, even through millions of years, the Great Race was
able to learn all things that were or ever would be known. From this knowledge the Great
Race created vast libraries containing volumes and volumes of text and pictures. These
volumes documented everything there would ever be to know about every species on Earth,
both in the past and in the future. These volumes include arts, achievements, languages,
and psychologies of all species.
To further their knowledge, the Great Race would select from every
era and life form subjects to inhabit and learn from. After entering the subject's mind
and displacing the subject's mind back to the period of the displacer, the creature would
pose as a member of that race or species and learn all it could until it was ready to
return. This displacement could occur over millions of years, as the Great Race deemed
necessary.
While in the body of the displacer, the displaced creature would
be carefully guarded, kept from harming the body it was occupying while being skillfully
questioned for all its knowledge. After the captured creature's mind accepted its
surroundings, it was permitted to study its surroundings and experience the wonders of the
race. When exercising suitable cautions, the captured creature was even allowed to rove
the world in titan airships or huge boat-like vehicles, or to delve into the vast
knowledge of the libraries. Certain captives were even allowed to interact with one
another, and all were urged to write down, in their own languages, of themselves and their
periods so that these documents could be archived.
The Great Race first came to Earth from the extinct planet of Yith
almost half a billion years ago and immediately set upon the dominant race of the region,
the Flying Polyps. After defeating them using energy weapons that were described in the
1920s as camera-like weapons which produced tremendous electrical effects, the Great Race
drove the Flying Polyps into the deep catacombs beneath the Earth and sealed the Polyps
basalt towers against them. The Great Race feared these creatures more than anything else
on the planet, and knew from the beginning that one day the Polyps would rise and destroy
them unless they escaped. Little is said in the history of the Great Race about the
polyps, such was the superstitious fear the Great Race had for them.
The Great Race formed a loosely knit nation or league that spread
across the planet. It can be assumed that this expansion is what ultimately led to the war
between the Great Race and the Old Ones. These wars, though, were infrequent, though
totally devastating.
Ultimately, the Great Race mass projected their minds forward to
the period of about 3,000 A.D., into the bodies of the mighty beetle race that survives
the human race after its destruction. Again at a much later date the Great Race mass
project their minds and inhabit the bulbous vegetable entities of Mercury.
The Shadow Out Of Time, H.P. Lovecraft.
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Green, First Mate. First mate of the ill-fated Emma. On March 22nd, 1925, the Emma was sunk for trying to move into the area of R’lyeh by the ship Alert. The crew of the Emma was able to board and kill the Alert’s crew and then went on to find R’lyeh. First Mate Green was killed in the battle.
The Call of Cthulhu, H.P. Lovecraft.
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Guerrera, Mr. A member of the crew of the ill-fated Emma. On March 22nd, the Emma was sunk for trying to move into the area of R’lyeh by the ship Alert. The crew of the Emma was able to board and kill the Alert’s crew and then went on to find R’lyeh. Guerrera was one of eight crewmembers to survive the attack by the Alert. Unfortunately, Cthulhu killed Guerrera with a sweep of its flabby claw upon its release from its dark chamber.
The Call of Cthulhu, H.P. Lovecraft.
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